On Wednesday 11 February 2004 01:57, Ulrich Leopold wrote:

how can I install the kernel 2.6 next to 2.4?

Just FTP the kraxel RPMs mentioned in: ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/people/kraxel/README Follow the instructions, I found them a bit cryptic. The RPM will install the 2.6 kernel in /boot alongside the old 2.4 one and arrange the symlinks (vmlinux and initrd) to point to the new kernel so it will boot. To re-enable the booting 2.4, edit /boot/grub/menu.lst and create a new section that references it directly. See my file at the end of this email. With some mucking to create a new modprobe.conf I got the basic machine and network card to boot reliably. But I couldn't get sound, (standard SB Live card) and this morning USB has gone AWOL taking the mouse with it. So I'm back on 2.4. Once I get 2.6.2 downloaded I might try again. michaelj -- Michael James michael.james@csiro.au System Administrator voice: 02 6246 5040 CSIRO Bioinformatics Facility fax: 02 6246 5166 PS: Here's my /boot/grub/menu.lst file, I can choose which kernel boots. suse:/home/pi/jam176 # cat /boot/grub/menu.lst # Modified by YaST2. Last modification on Sat Nov 29 18:28:40 2003 color white/blue black/light-gray default 0 timeout 8 gfxmenu (hd0,0)/message ###Don't change this comment - YaST2 identifier: Original name: linux### title Suse-9.0 kernel (hd0,0)/vmlinuz-2.4.21-166-default root=/dev/hda5 vga=0x31a splash=verbose desktop hdd=ide-cd hddlun=0 showopts initrd (hd0,0)/initrd-2.4.21-166-default ###Don't change this comment - YaST2 identifier: Original name: linux### title Suse-9.0-2.6.1-kernel kernel (hd0,0)/vmlinuz-2.6.1-3-default root=/dev/hda5 vga=0x31a splash=verbose desktop hdd=ide-cd hddlun=0 showopts initrd (hd0,0)/initrd-2.6.1-3-default ###Don't change this comment - YaST2 identifier: Original name: failsafe### title Failsafe kernel (hd0,0)/vmlinuz root=/dev/hda5 showopts ide=nodma apm=off acpi=off vga=normal nosmp noapic maxcpus=0 3 initrd (hd0,0)/initrd ###Don't change this comment - YaST2 identifier: Original name: memtest86### title memtest86 kernel (hd0,0)/memtest.bin